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Essay on my Dear/Favourite Poet:(Rabindranath Tagore)
I am a voracious reader.I have read many poet's books,but my favourite poet is ''Rabindranath Tagore''.Rabindranath Tagore was also known as Rabindranath Thakur and more popularly as Gurudev. He was a great Indian poet who has given many famous writings to the country. Undoubtedly, he was a greatest poet after Kalidas. Now, he is well known all over the world as a greatest Indian poets and writers of all ages.
He was born in a rich and cultured family in Jorasanko, Kolkata on 7th of May in 1861 to the Maharshi Debendranath Tagore (father) and Sarada Devi (mother). He lost his mother at his fourteen in 1875. He developed the interest of writing poems in his early age. He was also a painter, a philosopher, a patriot, an educationist, a novelist, a singer, an essayist, a story writer, and a constructive worker.
His great writings in the form of novels and short stories indicate his wisdom, deep experience and understanding about human character. He was a poet who has given a nice national anthem “Jan Gana Mana”. Some of his important works are “Geetanjali”, “Amar Shonar Bangla”, “Ghare-Baire”, “Rabindra Sangeet”, etc. He has been awarded with the Nobel Prize in 1913 for his great English version writing of “Geetanjali”. He was the first Indian and first Asian to get this award. He was the founder of Vishwabharati University at Santiniketan in 1902. His endless love towards his country and countrymen forced him to reject “Knighthood”, an award given by the British government, in 1919 in a protest against Jallianwala Bagh massacre. His great writings still inspire and encourage people of the country.
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Carl Sandburg
1878–1967
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Poet Carl Sandburg was born into a poor family in Galesburg, Illinois. In his youth, he worked many odd jobs before serving in the 6th Illinois Infantry in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American War. He studied at Lombard College, and then moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he worked as an organizer for the Socialist Democratic Party. In 1913, he moved to Chicago, Illinois and wrote for the Chicago Daily News. His first poems were published by Harriet Monroe in Poetry magazine. Sandburg’s collection Chicago Poems (1916) was highly regarded, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Corn Huskers (1918). His many subsequent books of poetry include The People, Yes (1936), Good Morning, America (1928), Slabs of the Sunburnt West (1922), and Smoke and Steel (1920).